2017/18 FA Trophy

[The_Boss]

Does anyone else fancy playing our game for us?

 

[B2TF]

Tomorrow's attendance could match the 400+ we got against Tamworth in 2015. Real clubs don't give a shit about the Trophy, even when they win it.

 

[RLC]

Pitch inspection at 8.30 am for our game tomorrow. Does Solihull Mooron know if it is likely to go ahead ?

 

[Blue Lion]

So it turns out Halifax are so tinpot that they can't even put covers on their pitch to stop it freezing. This had better not go to a replay now else it's yet another game for us to fit in over Christmas.

 

[Ian_Wrexham]

Pretty much the same feeling coming from our lot, it's like an even more pointless version of the piss pot/windows/checka whatever cup.

I hope we get dumped out.

ludicrous to compare the two tbh. Like, no-one cares about the Checkatrade trophy cos it's teams you'd mostly be playing anyway in the next few seasons and unless you get to Wembley there's barely any point.

The FA Trophy offers the potential of fun away trips to places further down the pyramid you'd never normally go and is a nice break from the drudgery of the Conference. Leyton Orient get to take hundreds of fans five miles down the road and probably smash them. You get a drive across the Penines to a magnificent relic of a third division north ground.

Maybe it's not so exciting when you get a new away trip every other week and the chance to be the big boys everywhere you go for a season. But just wait till you've been down here seven or eight years and these away trips come between Gateshead at home and Torquay away.

Just enjoy the fun away trip and the break from the relentless misery machine that is the Conference National.

 

[Chief Rocka]

ludicrous to compare the two tbh. Like, no-one cares about the Checkatrade trophy cos it's teams you'd mostly be playing anyway in the next few seasons and unless you get to Wembley there's barely any point.

The FA Trophy offers the potential of fun away trips to places further down the pyramid you'd never normally go and is a nice break from the drudgery of the Conference. Leyton Orient get to take hundreds of fans five miles down the road and probably smash them. You get a drive across the Penines to a magnificent relic of a third division north ground.

Maybe it's not so exciting when you get a new away trip every other week and the chance to be the big boys everywhere you go for a season. But just wait till you've been down here seven or eight years and these away trips come between Gateshead at home and Torquay away.

Just enjoy the fun away trip and the break from the relentless misery machine that is the Conference National.

Nobody cares about the Checkatrade cos it's utterly pointless, nothing to do with who you play, it was a waste of time, effort and money for all involved, a total unnecessary distraction and extra games for teams to contend with who often have the smallest squads in the league pyramid, it should've been scrapped years ago.

Workington in the middle of December is not a fun trip by any stretch of the imagination, no matter how twee their setup may be, the police in their wisdom declared this game all ticket for away fans only yesterday so I'd imagine there'll be less than 100 Pools there watching a full strength team getting poked, no thank you.

 

[Bendubz]

We didn't make the FA Cup 3rd round, we're resolutely midtable, I think we have to try and win the Trophy this year.

 

[Soup Ladle]

I would literally eat my own scrotum for the chance to once again compete in the Checkatrade Trophy.

 

[Master D]

I simply cannot be arsed going today. Nothing says waste of time competition than playing about 100 ties to get to a final where you make about £27 profit as a club because you're playing (and losing) to some nonsense like North Ferriby United at Wembley.

 

[mowgli]

I would literally eat my own scrotum for the chance to once again compete in the Checkatrade Trophy.

 

[Mr Scooty]

Plenty of players sensibly rested for our one, but with Massanka, Miller and our new goal machine Scott Boden all on the pitch we should be a threat going forward for once. It'll be 4-4.

 

[DarkSithLord]

Haringey Borough 1-0 Leyton Orient...

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

Haringey Borough 1-0 Leyton Orient...

It's fine mate, we're playing our first team, so expected... Sounds like Haringey have genuinely been the better team as well.

 

[1884 Belmont]

We're winning 0-1 but serious doubts that the game will continue as apparently the lights have gone out and we're playing in the (progressively worsening) daylight. Can't really blame Solihull, same thing has happened at Stoke in the Premier League (before the game though!).

 

[DarkSithLord]

Holders York 2 down at Kidderminster after 2 goals in a 4 minute spell.

 

[1884 Belmont]

We're winning 0-1 but serious doubts that the game will continue as apparently the lights have gone out and we're playing in the (progressively worsening) daylight. Can't really blame Solihull, same thing has happened at Stoke in the Premier League (before the game though!).

Game Abandoned. Seriously Solihull, get a grip. Too many times this season, utter joke.

 

[DarkSithLord]

Will be some serious interest in Stockport striker Jason Oswell too. 23 goals in all comps I may it now after his opener today at Lancaster.

 

[Pablosammy]

Game Abandoned. Seriously Solihull, get a grip. Too many times this season, utter joke.

FFS, such a tinpot club.

 

[The_Boss]

Will be some serious interest in Stockport striker Jason Oswell too. 23 goals in all comps I may it now after his opener today at Lancaster.

No idea what his contracts like but I'm hoping we're keeping watch.

 

[Harrier94]

Holders York 2 down at Kidderminster after 2 goals in a 4 minute spell.

2 in a minute. York haven't offered much and Parkin isn't playing well and they don't seem to have any other threat.

 

[Raymondo316]

Torquay down to 10 men and now Joe Pigott makes it 3-0.
Surely we cant fuck this up now

 

[1884 Belmont]

Game Abandoned. Seriously Solihull, get a grip. Too many times this season, utter joke.

To clarify - it's not their fault if the lights go out and it causes a delay whilst they fix it. It's their fault if they don't have any contingency plans and the game gets abandoned.

 

[DarkSithLord]

Orient level at Haringey. Josh Coulson.

 

[The Cards]

Concentrating on the league etc etc

 

[East Bank Shot]

Didn't want to go to Wembley anyway..... embarrassing from us.

 

[Reremnart]

To clarify - it's not their fault if the lights go out and it causes a delay whilst they fix it. It's their fault if they don't have any contingency plans and the game gets abandoned.

Joke of a club. Their first home game of the season is postponed because they failed to get a safety certicate for their ground improvements. We go there a few weeks later and two of our players have to fix a goal net for them. They have floodlight problems at their last home game and today they abandon a game for the same thing. I repeat joke of a club !!!

 

[DarkSithLord]

Orient have turned it around now. 2-1. York have pulled one back through Morgan Smith

 

[DarkSithLord]

Workington 1-0 Hartlepool.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Give the lads credit, we've done alright just to keep it 1-0

 

[DarkSithLord]

Another replay for Heybridge Swifts. Lol